Spice Club — Restaurant in Newark and Sherwood

I don’t normally leave reviews but felt I needed to in this case. Whilst the chicken itself was good quality breast, the actual Indian dishes were somewhat bland and mediocre unfortunately. The tandoori dish I ordered was served on a normal plate, not a hot sizzling grill plate and the madras dish was more like a slightly spicy soup with chicken chunks in. I accept this blandness may be tailored to the Southwell audience, but I certainly prefer my usual Mansfield and Newark restaurants where the price feels justified and the dishes are much better quality - strange considering the good reviews. In addition, despite the already expensive dishes, when the bill came and we offered to tip to round up the bill, they added an extra 7.5% on top of what we said, quickly claiming they misheard - not believable given how different sounding the values were. Ultimately we were disappointed and won’t be returning...

If I were to paraphrase Douglas Adams, my two word review of Khyber Pass would be "mostly average".

Khyber Pass isn't a bad restaurant, it's just a long way from great.

The food is inconsistent. One time you might order a Lamb Pasander and it's fairly mild. The next time it'll be really spicy.

Sometimes we get abundant, well nicely cooked poppadoms. The next time they will be few and burned on the edges.

The food always seems clean enough, so it's definitely not a worry.

That said, the staff are really polite, and generally have a good attitude.

I'm sure I'll eat hear again, if only because of...

I lived in Nottingham for 7 years and discovered the Khyber Pass at Hyson Green in my last 4 years there. I have since worked in many countries around the world and sampled many a good Currie from the San Fransisco, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, HongKong and Singapore to name a few. When it comes to value for money, flavor, taste and quality its up there in my top . My mouth waters just thinking about that counter display when I first walk into the Restaurant.

I am at a present in Shanghai, back in a couple of months though, keep up the great work...